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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
114,092 entries
August 20, 2019 · 11:10 PM · CIRCLE
Salyersville, KY
Was standing in my driveway looking up and a bright, white, circular ball of light appeared from my left. The object went past me and then disappeared without a trace. There was absolutely no sound and it wasn’t very high in the sky, maybe 200 feet up at most. Appeared to be about the size of a beach ball. Very shaken up, never been a believer til that moment.
August 20, 2019 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
American Fork, UT
While sitting outside on the patio we noticed clusters of light passing us overhead. They were in a V-Formation, like the way that birds travel. However, the objects emit light independently. The objects flew overhead individually as a single craft, but sometimes in pairs or even groups of three. At one point two of these formations separated when an airplane passed it. The objects also varied in size and the altitude at which they traveled. Not sure what to make of it. Upon research the lights resemble that of the “Lubbock Lights”.
August 20, 2019 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Nobleboro, ME
See field light up bright next to house while getting in my vehicle with my son. stopped and watched it, see giant disc or triangle shape craft with pulsating lights, guessing 10 to 12 lights, coming right towards us just over tree Line, jumped in vehicle in a panic feeling and watched go directly over us and had red and purple colors in center, watched go by us and over trees headed northeast and seemed to accelerate, took 5 seconds to get directly over us and maybe 2 or 3 seconds and gone, flying about 100-200 ft above tree line, window down watching it directly above and watched disappear to NE, looked black or dark colored and absolutely no sound! So low u could hear the air being cut, also never seen any plane or any aircraft in that part of sky in 30 years, it’s too populated and is in no-fly area. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 20, 2019 · 8:56 PM · TRIANGLE
Bartlesville, OK
Aug 20th, 2019,, I was driving on Hwy 123 North between Bartlesville and Barndall, Ok., at approx. 8:50pm, with me was my 11 yr old granddaughter. I seen a strange Bright light flashing at a slow pace kinda, on the East side up ahead going at a fast rate. I told my granddaughter to look it looks like the same kind of bright light we saw a week before, on Aug. 13th 2019. And it just came across where we seen it. All of a sudden it turned going North in a sharp way I can only describe as in an L manner. As I topped the hill the Bright light was on the West side of Hwy now going South. The way it was flashing and as Bright as it was, I decided to pull over to observe it better at a stand still. It was almost straight across from me in the Air by the time i stopped. It had seemed to have had pause for a few seconds, and at that moment, it was moving in a bouncing form it would go down just a little bit, back up then real fast bounce back, then right then left. I instantly shouted did you see that to my granddaughter. She did in fact seen it move as I did. Right then I knew I was looking at something. A UFO, we continued to watch it as it continued to travel southward. Within a few minutes it was I would say over Barnsdall, and it just stopped moving. The Bright light stayed in one spot for 5 to 7 minutes, then started to move again going west, turning back going North Northeast until it was almost right back to where we were sitting of Hwy. This is when I decided to grab my cell phone and start recording, and as I was recording I could not really see anything that I was looking at, I thought that my phone would not pick bright light up. So I Called my youngest daughter till she answered which is where I just left not 15 minutes ago from taking her back home to Barnsdall. I screamed get outside right now, locate the Big Dipper now look to ur left just a little and Boom she had asked what is it.. Then she and her wife was lik! e Omg is that , I can hear it mom, it has a whirling deep weird sound, They could see it turning like in a spinning way. We all watched it until we could not see it anymore as it went into the sky where it was lighting and storming.. I got home and went to see if my phone picked any of the recording I did, and oh man did it. You can see the bright light a few times and see how it was moving around a little, then right at the end of the video you see the triangle shape lights 3 of them. We were on shoulder of Hwy. and it was dark with trees on both sides of the road.
August 20, 2019 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Deer Lodge, MT
During a servere lightning storm there was a beam of white light coming down behind the clouds and was visible between two clouds. This beam was thicker than the lightning and was straight as an arrow coming down at a 25 degree angle.
August 20, 2019 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
New York City (Manhattan), NY
I live in a high-rise building in Weehawken, New Jersey. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw this bright object hovering in the sky above the Hudson River roughly across 86th-89th street of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As first I thought it was a star, but as I look carefully, I notice the objective was moving and its brightness changes as it moved. Since I don't have a telescope, I couldn't tell the exact shape of object, but it looks circular and it is bright. After 15-20 minutes, the object began to ascend and the light got dimmer. Right before it fully disappeared, I saw another similar object appeared above the Manhattan Island, roughly around the 86th-80th street near the Upper West Side. The object looks very similar to the other one. It is round and it's bright. It hovered over the area for about 10-15 minutes, then it traveled toward downtown Manhattan. It was flying in a straight line, steady altitude, in a speed just faster than a helicopter. I could hear any noise from where I was. It continued to fly in the downtown direction until it has gone beyond the view of my window. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Pine Bush, NY
Date: August 19, 2019 Time: approx. 23:00 EST Location: Ulster County, NY, low in the sky between Burlingham, NY, and Walker Valley, NY, Sighting area: about 10 mins West of Pine Bush, NY, looking West Sighting duration 5-10 mins. Description: Seen just above the tree tops at a distance of approx. 2-3 miles, a bright flashing light, rapidly changing colors. Larger and brighter than a star, and not flashing regular FAA lights (as I observed the object a normal plane did fly overhead for contrast). Lots of stars out, too, but this looked nothing like a star. Mediocre quality iPhone video taken that, at least, shows the rapid cycling of the flashing lights. Viewed through binoculars, however, the distant object almost appeared spherical, and the different colored rapid-cycling lights were much more obvious. The object appeared motionless until it drifted away south and was gone from view behind tall trees nearby.
August 19, 2019 · 10:38 PM · LIGHT
Elizabeth, NJ
My husband and I when out to the parking lot and we saw a steady red bright light at the sky over the Elizabeth River parkway for about 2 minutes then suddenly made a weird move and disappear from the sky.
August 19, 2019 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Clermont, FL
1. Seeing with 4x40 binocular, white changing to blue, with small red dot. Able to get video. Thougth it might be a satellite but it change color. Jupiter was out to make a comparison of brightness and color stability. 2. Appeared 5 min later, no sound small possible a large drone size, flew over the house.
August 19, 2019 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Charleston, SC
Assumed a smoke trail from a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, FL, but according to their website, no launches on 8/19/19.
August 19, 2019 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Alpine, TX
On Monday, August 19th, at somewhere around 10:00 pm in Alpine, Texas. Me and two friends had stepped outside for a cigarette. As we normally do we layed on our backs and admired the night sky as there is very little light pollution where we're from. Me and one of my friends both at the same time verbally exclaimed at something we were seeing. It appears to be an almost bird-like crescent shaped object moving through the sky. It was invisible but we could still see it. It was almost, cartoonishly invisible as the outline of it was pronounced but the inside of the object was invisible. It seemed almost as if it was like a magnifying glass, warping the view of the stars above it as it traveled. It was completely dead silent. I'm unable to determine what it's elevation was. I saw it for 5-7 seconds, then lost track of it when I stood up to see it better. My friend claims to have seen it continue flying then dissapear into the horizon. Had my friend not seen it. I'm almost certain that I would have dismissed it. But now I'm inclined to believe that it was some sort of flying object. Whether it was government technology or an alien spacecraft, I am unaware. All I know is that I did see it.
August 19, 2019 · 9:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Ukiah, CA
A green object came into the atmosphere, Southwestern area of the sky. It fell towards the ground and appeared to be close. This was different than a fireball as the color was a glowing green and seemed to Be cool not hot. It fell in a diagonal pattern and I faintly heard a high pitch sound. The night air was heavy, dense, and dark. The temperature was cool for August; the air had a smell of an overheated radiator. I felt an uneasy energy .
August 19, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lynnwood, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Seaside, CA
We observed a very high speed, star-like object traveling in a south/west to north/west direction holding altitude. This particular direction is uncommon for commercial aircraft along the central coast of california. Miltary aircraft don't fly this particular direction at that altitude either. That includes fighter jets or larger. When they do fly higher, they leave trails with this object did not. We observe military aircraft with regularity in this area. This object had no navigation lights and made no sound. It appeared as a white to slightly orange color and except for its odd speed and altitude, looked similar to a star. We were able to determine its height to be between 'two and three times' the altitude of commercial aircraft traveling along the south to north route, (so-cal to the bay area), by using cloud layers and other aircraft at the time of sighting, (appox 30,000-40,000 feet as I often watch them on the flightradar app),. There were more than one commercial aircraft on the evening of sighting flying along the usual route. The sky was extremely clear in places and commercial aircraft could be heard and navigation lights clearly seen on all aircraft. We counted off the seconds and estimated the speed to be appox ten times that of commercial aircraft seen? It held a straight line until out of sight - approx half the observable sky, in 10-15 secs. Four family members observed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 7:02 PM · CYLINDER
Creston, NC
On August 19, 2019 at approximately 7:02 p.m. ET in Creston, NC, I saw a silver cylinder shaped object about the size of a bus moving through the sky from a northeast direction toward a southerly direction. No noise, no lights, no wings. It was moving quickly and although the skies were cloudy, there were intermittent breaks in the clouds where I spotted this “thing”. I watched it until it disappeared into a cloud. Some months back, I saw an object which looked the same on two different occasions, but there were two of them at that time. One went over followed by another one shortly thereafter which looked identical. The first time the objects were going from a southerly direction toward the northeast. The second time I saw them, which I believe was the next evening before dark,, there were also two of the objects going in the opposite direction. One following the other with a good distance between them so as both were not visible together. Someone posted a picture from California on this site which I saw and it looked the same as the object I saw.
August 19, 2019 · 6:30 PM · DIAMOND
Auburn, WA
Wife and I were heading to the store when I looked up and saw what I first thought was a hot air balloon. When I looked again, there was no movement from it, and it stayed stationary for some time. Took a pic of it and almost looks diamond shaped with two arms, one from top of craft and one from bottom (didn't notice until I looked at picture to see the arms). Craft was darker in color. Almost a shiny dark grey. Then as soon as it was there it was just gone. No way a hot air balloon could travel that fast. It wasn't even a windy day today. Still can't figure out what it was. Just glad I was able to snap a pic.
August 19, 2019 · 4:35 PM · CYLINDER
Tonkawa, OK
Monday August 19. Around 4:35 p.m. Saw a cylindrical object just east of Tonkawa, OK flying north to south. Object appeared to be like an aircraft fuselage but without wings or tail fin. As I observed the object move to the south I got a view down it as well, still showing no wings. The object was grey; a little reflectivity but not much. Altitude would be a guess but I’d say under 10k ft. Speeds appeared like an airliner would have. No contrail, no noise. Could have been a balloon but it would have been trucking it on a calm wind day. Winds were from the south as well.
August 19, 2019 · 12:00 PM · CYLINDER
Peninsula State Park, WI
I saw this object out of the corner of my eye, which seemed strange, because it was so high in the sky. I pointed it out to my wife, who also saw it. It seemed to be a grey color or a dark blue, not moving, staying in one place, I would estimate 30,000 feet above us. (the estimate is based on jet planes at that height, traveling across country, that one might see on a clear day.) After about a minute to a minute and a half, we lost sight of it, with high haze coming between us and the object.
August 19, 2019 · 5:00 AM · EGG
Ann Arbor (E of; on S HWY 23), MI
As I drove south on Hwy 23 in Michigan I looked to the Left (East) at what I thought was the constellation Orion. Then this Bright glowing green egg just seamed to raise for the ground and moved from the south to the north, it made a dip and a rise and arched Downward again leaving some kind of a trail behind it. At the bottom of the second dip, it rolled over to the right and shot off at a approx 100-110 degree angle disappearing in a flash. this was no more than 200 yards from me.
August 19, 2019 · 4:00 AM · OTHER
Kensington, MD
i got up from sleep to go to the bathroom afterwards i was looking out the third floor window at the woods in back of the house looking for nocturnal animals. i saw a blink out of the corner of my right eye and immediately thought it was a lightning bug because it was in the tree line. Then there was a much larger blink that had the shape of a twinkie. It pulsed about like a light on the top of a tower. Not rapid like collision lights on a jet. There was a low cloud cover and whatever this was was slightly in the clouds, low. We live in the flight path for Reagan nat airport so i am used to seeing commercial aircraft. Usually in fog the aircraft turn on their landing lights. I think i have seen a plane where the collision avoidance lights strobed together, although what i saw moved slow and pulsed slowly and the whole object was the same brightness. There was no noise and it was low probably 600 feet AGL. No navigation lights either. also the path that it was traveling i should have seen it sooner b/c it would have gone in front of me which it just sort of started it pulse run to my right.
August 19, 2019 · 2:46 AM · FLASH
Milwaukee, WI
I have video Danced in sky then took off.
August 19, 2019 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Dalton, GA
Around 2:30 AM, was going down Murray Ave in Dalton, Georgia, as I looked into my rear view mirror, seen a very bright white light zoom from one side of the Rd to the other side across the street. There were no reflections of street lights because I was in a dark area! 2nd encounter: driving my car later that day and a light comes in my back window and out my front window, disappearing!
August 19, 2019 · 12:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Shelton, CT
Around midnight, I came out to my front porch. In between the trees I noticed two bright white lights with a band of five to eight smaller lights under it. The lights hovered above the tree lines without a sound and it was illuminating the dark road (there are no street lamps on the road). It seemed to be getting closer to ground very slowly. Then the motion light detectors went on at my house as well as the neighbor's. At this point, I went inside. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 18, 2019 · 10:55 PM · RECTANGLE
Hamilton, MT
I observed 4 rectangular red moving objects traveling at different speeds. Slowly the moving objects faded in the sky.